Al-Qaida no 2 at missile attack house
Al-Qaida’s second-in-command met his deputy last year at the same home hit by a US missile attack believed to have killed at least four of the terror network’s operatives, Pakistani intelligence officials said today.
Al-Qaida No. 2 Ayman al-Zawahri – the apparent target of the January 13 US attack – met Abu Farraj al-Libbi in Damadola last year, a security official said on condition of anonymity.
Al-Libbi, a Libyan, had allegedly confessed to Pakistani interrogators after his capture in May 2005 that he met al-Zawahri at Damadola, near the Afghan border, in early 2005. Al-Libbi was caught after a shootout in another remote hamlet in north-western Pakistan.
Another high-ranking intelligence official confirmed al-Libbi’s account of the meeting, which took place a few months before his arrest.
